The contribution addresses the question of a single database of systematically selected and edited correspondences (either public or personal) for Slovenia, which would enable an in-depth historiographic, textual, literary etc. analysis of these documents, supported by adequate IT technologies. These analyses would help place Slovenian lands on the map of the so-called “Republic of Letters”; compared to e.g. Croatia where such a project has long been underway (CroALa – Croatiae Auctores Latini), Slovenia has yet to receive such a project.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537318084The monograph includes contributions from contemporaries of the First World War, follows their experience and adoption of global military conflict and reflecting on it. A wide range of contemporaries from different social and educational levels provides a wide range of views on the war, which is a rarity in a scientific reading of the The Great War. Although scientific monograph does not want to selectively deal with people based on their uniqueness to the Slovenian social reality, since the war is precisely the time that brutally equalizes peoples' lives and deprives them of the possibility of making decisions, some of the discussed found themselves in the epicenter of the political events which built image of post-war Europe and the Slovenian space in it.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 280335104On October 20th, 2015, Neža Zajc organized a symposium in honor of the tenth anniversary of the death of a poet Dane Zajc. At the symposium, which was held in the Knights Hall of the Museum of Contemporary Slovenian History, a number of important academics, poets, literary historians and theoreticians lined up, among which it is worth mentioning the following: Janko Kos, Niko Grafenauer, Boris A. Novak, Denis Poniž, Igor Saksida, Brane Senegačnik and Igor Grdina. The scientific and memorial meeting was well attended, and the event finished with a joint view of the last literary evening held by poet Dane Zajc in Slovenia.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
The paper discussed the correspondence between Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), distinguished Slovenian writer of modern and Minka Skaberne (1882–1965), a pioneer in the field of helping blind. She was also a founder of library for the blind in Slovenia. On the basis of the correspondence it was possible to analyze some fragments of the dynamics how Skaberne was operating, particularly regarding to the idea of how to set up a library for the blind in the period after the first world war.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 56808546Comparing WWI and WWII reveals their major discrepancies. The first started as a European conflict; German endeavours to split it up only produced results in 1917 when the revolutionary events in Russia knocked this state out of the collective war. The similar project in the west – in Mexico – failed. WWII was the sequel to a series of conflicts in the Far East, Africa and Europe, which only gradually evolved towards a collective conflict.
B.04 Guest lecture
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